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Hacker News (Apr 2019)
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Seven databases in seven weeks (2014)
135 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Apple tells lawmakers people will hurt themselves if they try to fix iPhones
135 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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F18 Fortran compiler and runtime project is accepted as part of LLVM project
135 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Search Benchmarking: RediSearch vs. Elasticsearch
135 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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A PHP Compiler, a.k.a. the FFI Rabbit Hole
135 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable
135 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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My Laptop Bit Me – The Shocking Truth (2012)
134 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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The sexes don’t feel pain the same way
134 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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A $230k debt and a LinkedIn message led an ex-CIA officer to spy for China
134 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles
133 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Using JSON Schema to Document, Test, and Debug APIs
133 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Source for CARBANAK backdoor leaked and placed on GitHub
132 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Apply Unix Principles to Write Testable Microservices
132 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Cloud Code – A new set of plug-ins for IntelliJ and VS Code
132 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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A Brief and Brisk Overview of Compiler Architecture
132 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Kustomize – Templating in Kubernetes
132 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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Trying to make sense of CompuServe server hard disk images
132 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Google’s Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement
132 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Why I Switched from Visual Studio Code to JetBrains WebStorm
131 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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Apollo 15 postage stamp incident
131 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame
131 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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The Anhei tokamak is first in the world to generate 100M degrees Celsius
131 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Emperor Akihito: Japanese monarch declares historic abdication
131 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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The Day Feynman Worked Out Black-Hole Radiation on My Blackboard
131 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Fearing More Violence, Sri Lanka Silences Social Media
131 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Apple now repairing MacBook keyboards in store, promising next day turnaround
131 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers
131 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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On Oliver Sacks and His Obsession with Weightlifting
131 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly
131 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Joy of Computing – Daily Links from the Recurse Community
131 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Jane Manchun Wong: App researcher who unlocks new features before they launch
130 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Australia Passes Law to Punish Social Media Companies for Violent Posts
130 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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Ask HN: As managers, how do you make sure your distributed team is aligned?
130 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Cops can force your finger onto an iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge
130 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Our Stripe Billing implementation and the one webhook to rule them all
130 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014)
130 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess
130 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Peter's Evil Overlord List (1996)
130 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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WebAssembly Troubles Part 4: Microwasm
130 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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An Introduction to C and GUI Programming
130 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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A Practical Guide to Hyperparameter Optimization
129 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737 MAX baffles some involved in developing it
129 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Launch HN: Trexo Robotics (YC W19) – Robotic Legs for Kids with Cerebral Palsy
129 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Electric Cars Hit Record in Norway
129 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Dark Matter Detector Records One of the Rarest Events Known to Science
129 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Residents concerned about DNA-for-cash transactions in Louisville
129 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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My Roommate's Tik Tok Fame Made My Life Hell (2018)
129 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Building a Passive IMSI Catcher
128 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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U.S.-Thai pair facing death for 'sea home' should fight charge, Thailand says
128 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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GPS Time Rollover Failures Keep Happening, But They’re Almost Done
128 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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Firefox Beta for Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Now Available
128 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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“Problems” with git format-patch
128 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have Yet to Arrive
128 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Saudi Aramco Is World’s Most Profitable Company, Far Exceeding Apple
128 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium
128 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Brain Drain Across the United States
128 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Nothing Fails Like Success
128 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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The New York Times sells premium ads based on how an article makes you feel
128 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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American Hackers Helped UAE Spy on Al Jazeera Chairman, BBC Host
127 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers
127 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Kofola, the Cold War Drink of Czechoslovakia
127 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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PayPal Alternatives for Startups
127 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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A once abandoned drug compound shows an ability to rebuild organs
127 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Thundering Herds and Promises
127 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
127 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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Samurai Helmets
127 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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On-Demand Startups Are Hemorrhaging Tens of Billions a Year
127 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Serious flaws leave WPA3 vulnerable to hacks that steal Wi-Fi passwords
127 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Responsible JavaScript: Part I
127 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Virtually Unlimited Memory: Escaping the Chrome Sandbox
127 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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The Samsung Galaxy Fold's display seems to have problems
126 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Does the LHC collide protons at twice the speed of light?
126 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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Dear AI startups: Your ML models are dying quietly
126 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Show HN: Tetris Implemented in ClojureScript
126 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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Codecademy vs. the BBC Micro
126 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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Why we’re switching to calendar versioning
126 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Put Another Zero on Facebook’s Fine. Then We Can Talk
126 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac?
125 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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How Big Business Is Hedging Against the Apocalypse
125 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Multiple Boeing 787s in China experienced GPS 20 years rollover issue
125 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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A million people live in underground nuclear bunkers in Beijing (2017)
125 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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Surge Synthesizer
125 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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From Theory to Systems: A Grounded Approach to Programming Language Education
125 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Super Mario Bros. Commodore 64 Fan Port Hit with DMCA
125 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content
125 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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NLP on Mueller Report
125 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Lambda School wants to teach nursing
124 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Show HN: Sortraits, Portraits of Sorting Algorithms
124 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides
124 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Graphiti: Stylish Graph APIs
124 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Pluggable Storage Committed in Postgres
124 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced
124 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism is failing America
123 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app
123 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Open Questions about Generative Adversarial Networks
123 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Inverse Live Coding: A practice for learning web development
123 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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Size visualization of Go executables using D3
123 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked
123 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Embracing Swift for Deep Learning
123 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Distributions vs. Releases: Why Python Packaging Is Hard
123 points • comment • apr 30, 2019